Dr. Dengrong Jiang is a Tenure-track Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in 2020. He then joined the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at JHU as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and was promoted to Instructor in 2021. From 2022 to 2024, he held the position of Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at JHU, and served as the principal investigator for an NIH R21 grant and an NIH R01 grant subaward. In 2024, he returned to China and joined the faculty of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His primary research focus is the development of innovative magnetic resonance imaging techniques for assessing brain physiology, as well as the clinical applications of these techniques in brain diseases such as hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in newborn babies and Alzheimer's disease in the elderly. He has published 33 papers in SCI journals and has been honored with multiple international awards, including the Junior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Young Investigator Award First Place from the International Society for Neurovascular Diseases.

2009-2013 Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University

2013-2020 Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

2020-2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University

2021-2022 Instructor, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University

2022-2024 Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University

2024-present Tenure-track Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Development of novel magnetic resonance imaging techniques to assess the brain’s physiology (including cerebral oxidative metabolism, cerebral blood flow, the flow and exchange of cerebrospinal fluid, etc.), and the clinical applications of these techniques in brain diseases such as hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in newborn babies and Alzheimer’s disease in the elderly.

2022 Junior Fellow, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)

2022 Young Investigator Award First Place, the International Society for Neurovascular Diseases

2021 ISMRM W. S. Moore Young Investigator Award Finalist

2019 Best Presentation First Place, Imaging Cerebral Physiology Network

1] Dengrong Jiang; Peiying Liu; Zixuan Lin; Kaisha Hazel; George Pottanat; Emma Lucke; Abhay Moghekar; Jay J. Pillai; Hanzhang Lu; MRI assessment of cerebral oxygen extraction fraction in the medial temporal lobe, NeuroImage, 2023, 266: 119829.

[2] Dengrong Jiang; Zixuan Lin; Peiying Liu; Sandeepa Sur; Cuimei Xu; Kaisha Hazel; George Pottanat; Sevil Yasar; Paul Rosenberg; Marilyn Albert; Hanzhang Lu; Normal variations in brain oxygen extraction fraction are partly attributed to differences in end-tidal CO2, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2020, 40(7): 1492-1500.

[3] Dengrong Jiang; Zixuan Lin; Peiying Liu; Sandeepa Sur; Cuimei Xu; Kaisha Hazel; George Pottanat; Jacqueline Darrow; Jay J. Pillai; Sevil Yasar; Paul Rosenberg; Abhay Moghekar; Marilyn Albert; Hanzhang Lu; Brain Oxygen Extraction Is Differentially Altered by Alzheimer's and Vascular Diseases, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2020, 52(6): 1829-1837.

[4] Dengrong Jiang; Yifan Gou; Zhiliang Wei; Xirui Hou; Vivek Yedavalli; Hanzhang Lu; Quantification of T1 and T2 of subarachnoid CSF: implications for water exchange between CSF and brain tissues, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2023, 90: 2411-2419.

[5] Dengrong Jiang; Hanzhang Lu; Charlamaine Parkinson; Pan Su; Zhiliang Wei; Li Pan; Aylin Tekes; Thierry A.G.M. Huisman; W. Christopher Golden; Peiying Liu; Vessel‐specific quantification of neonatal cerebral venous oxygenation, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2019, 82(3): 1129-1139